UVA Proxy Service

Access Restricted Resources Remotely

Some University of Virginia resources, such as library materials, online databases,
news resources, and downloadable software, have license restrictions that limit
their use to the University community. You can access these restricted resources
only if your computer is physically on Grounds or, if you are working
remotely, through an off-Grounds option to
access restricted UVA resources, such as the proxy service.

Using the UVA Proxy Service

To use the UVA proxy service, you must be faculty, staff, or a student
of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and you must have
NetBadge access. No special web browser configuration is
necessary; simply browse a University Library website such as
LibGuides and click a link to
a resource. Library websites have links to restricted
resources that send your browser to the proxy service.
For example, the link to http://www.jstor.org/ is
http://proxy01.its.virginia.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/.

If you are off-Grounds and are not using a VPN,
then the proxy service authenticates you with NetBadge and your browser
accesses the resource via the proxy service. Your browser sends web requests
to the proxy, which relays them to the restricted resource. The resource sends
its responses back to the proxy, which relays them to your browser.

If you are on Grounds (or off-Grounds using a VPN) then
the proxy service does not require authentication and it redirects
you to the resource. From then on you access the resource directly,
without using the proxy service.

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Services (ITS) website is provided as a public service with the understanding that ITS makes
no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness,
reliability or suitability of the information, including warrantees of title, non-infringement of
copyright or patent rights of others. These pages are expected to represent the University of Virginia
community and the State of Virginia in a professional manner in accordance with the University of
Virginia’s Computing Policies.